Golf is a sport which is widely known but not played by many. Fortunately there is a golf club nearby, Golfclub Siegen-Olpe e.V. (GCSO) and one of our teachers, Mrs Bracht, is an active player in this club. To introduce new players to the sport GCSO offered an introductory course in cooperation with Konrad-Adenauer-Hauptschule Wenden. Students could apply to take part in the course and 12 boys and girls were chosen. Every Tuesday from April to June they met at the golf club and learned how to swing the club at the tiny white ball. They found out how difficult it is to hit the ball close to the hole in the ground with as few strokes as possible. All of the twelve did very well and earned a youth badge in silver. Half of them were finally chosen as the best prospects and given a free membership for the rest of the year with the equipment they had used during the course thrown in. There are more pictures at KAS + GCSO = Fun at Golfing.

You’ve probably already seen Dominic’s pictures of KAS mini marathon 2009 (see KAS Marathon/ KAS Lauf 2009). There are some more pictures for you to see. They were taken by Mr Helmes. The album is called KAS mini marathon 2009 – HD. In addition we’ve now also got a detailed report of the mini marathon. Go to 2009 KAS Lauf. You can also find out who the fastest runners were. Over the previous years the fastest runners usually were the same year after year. There were some new faces this year.

Over the past months workmen have been busy at our school replacing windows and ceilings, lamps and blinds as well as electric wiring, fuse panels and they have also been laying new network cables. There was only one problem, students and teachers. Now that those are gone on vacation and the big building is empty workmen have free reign throughout the building. All classrooms were emptied. Tables and chairs are piled up in the hallways. Those classrooms which have already been renovated are getting thouroughly cleaned by our cleaning staff. At the same time the school cafeteria is undergoing construction work. To make room for more students the neighbouring fine arts room becomes part of the cafeteria, which will also be expanded towards the workshops at the back.

On their last day before the final day of school for this term Class 9.4 spent some time at a fish pond to swim and have a barbeque. Their teacher Mrs Kalveram took some pictures. You find some of these pictures at our Flickr site in an album called 9.4 am Teich /at the pond. Enjoy!

Last year our KAS mini marathon had to be canceled because of exceptionally bad weather and we didn’t find any date in the busy schedule of the beginning of this school year to have it later on. This had been a first in the 23 year history of our mini marathon. This year there were plans not to have it either because of our running day. But as we had missed the KAS mini marathon No 23 one year ago it was decided not to cancel it this time. Class teachers gave out bibs which students had to attach to their shirt with safety pins. At half past eight all runners assembled at the starting line and waited to be started. After the run the three fastest runners of every age group received their winner’s certificate from our headmaster and Mr Sieler of a local bank. Then it was time to head back to the classrooms to do some cleaning up bevor students received their reports. Dominik from Year Six took lots of pictures of the KAS mini marathon. You can see nearly 300 at our Flickr site in an album called KAS Marathon/ KAS Lauf 2009. There should be a picture of nearly every student. Use the slideshow feature. Enjoy!